since the head unit sits right on top of the power steering pump blocking acess to the filler. I have been thinking about this since the first prochrger I ever installed. I knew they existed, but couldn't remember on what car lines.

I haven't seen one of these for a while, I figured since I actually found a source for them in the wrecking yards, that I should share it.

It is the GMC Safari and Astro in the original body style (late 80's early 90's)

I was getting a steering shaft from this safari for another project when I spotted that it has a power steering pump with the divorced resevoir.

Meaning that instead of filling on top, it fills separately with a resevoir that has its own dipstick. This resevoir supplys the pump with fluid at the top of the pump. From what I remember about these they have the same sort of "bolt-up" holes and studs on the body as the rest of the GM line (like ours) to go on our brackets.

Unless someone actually goes and graps one, installs it on a third gen we wont know what extra detail it might entail. It seems a straight forward swap to me.

whomever does it will need a "PS pump" pulley puller.

here are the two crappy cell phone pictures I took:

the resevoir

 

and the pump

 

Turbo Buicks use a separate reservoir also (at least in 86-87). Not sure if the pump would bolt up though.

Reservoir is still avaialable, P/N 25531140.

 

I bet it would bolt up. Im sure that a minivan junkyard pullout beats a Grand National "new in box" part for prices any day.

 

He He He, you're probably right.

gmpartsdirect has it for $16.50, GM list is $29 (without cap, of course)

I just thought I would offer it up as an option because it is a completely different design than the one in your pic from the van. May or may not lend itself better to a 3rd Gen application.

 

good idea

 

Not as likely to be a cheap JY find but many mid 90's and up GM's use them, including the vettes, anything powered by an LT1, caviler/sunfire a bunch of the midsize cars… A bunch of these will use the newer/next design pump which will require some adaptor fittings to mate up to the 3rd gen plumbing/box, but the point is that there are tons of options.

 

yeah, I liked this car for the idea, it is a cheap and likely candidate for fitment here.

But those cars might make goot alternate donors for the resevoirs with alternate styles of resevoir brackets.

 

the newer ones use a small square reservior that should be easier to retrofit then a round one.